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Training Camp Follow-Up: Ins and Outs (Part 4)- Power Forward
Four Power Forwards, all of them under 30, all of them have shown promise in the last year. Lamar Odom is entrenched at the PF spot, but a surprising crop of young players are pushing specialized skills as they vie for the remainder of the minutes, which could be significant as Odom deals with an offseason of adversity.
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[2 comments] - Training Camp Follow-Up: Ins and Outs (Part 3)
- Small Forward Small Forward is considerably less-congested than it was, say, two years ago. There are really only two players who are going to be exclusively, or almost exclusively SFs on this roster.
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- Shooting Guard There are probably five players who are best-suited for the SG spot on the Lakers. This means that there are ten players whose natural position is Guard. Something has to give. A team cannot field just five bigs to go with ten backcourt players. So who is in, who is out?
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- As The Lakers wrap up the first week of training camp, the question on everyone's mind is, "Who will make the final roster?" Although it is early, a rough answer is beginning to take shape. With 20 players invited to camp and only 15 spots on the roster available, including the Developmental League players and other inactives, the Lakers are looking at dropping five players. What follows is a position-by-position analysis of who is most likely in, and who is going to be searching elsewhere for a job.
Point Guard With five players who would likely fit the bill for a triangle PG, there is likely to be at least one Point Guard who doesn't make the final roster. So then, who's in and who is out?
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[3 comments] - Los Angeles Lakers Preseason Preview
- Los Angeles Lakers 2006-2007 Season Preview: Point-Counterpoint
Each season brings a blank slate for thirty teams in the NBA. The bottom feeders receive a new hope, a chance to start again. The elite teams from last season also have to start again, for better or worse. While some teams will rocket their way up the standings, making huge improvements from last season, other teams will make meteoric descents. This is the way the NBA is, with free agency, a small pool of position players, and a large pool of applicants. Teams can change their stripes in the blink of an eye. With all this parity in mind, I present LA's 2006/07 Two Extremes: Point-Counterpoint, along with a Hegelian Synthesis of the two theses.
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